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Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy

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by bikenaga

1 hour ago

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tdb7893

2 minutes ago

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As an American who is a current grad student at Purdue this sucks. I've met great grad students from all around and it's sad that these exact sorts of really smart people have had increasing difficulty in coming to the US and staying here.

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ls612

59 minutes ago

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It would be akin to admitting German grad students in Physics in 1935. At some point Americans will need to realize that realpolitik dictates you don’t educate your enemy at scale as a policy matter, lest we discover the hard way how this will go wrong.

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contrarian1234

1 minute ago

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China as the enemy is a fabricated narrative, bc culturally we seem to have a need to have another cold war, we need a "bad guy"

in reality theyre just economic rivals. But thebmn again so are the EU.

in terms of zone of political influence the competition isnt anything crazy (except for the poor taiwanese caught in the middle) and there is no clash of political ideaologies

In my experience Chinese in China don't typically see the US as an enemy. Its a weird framing for them

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estearum

48 minutes ago

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Realpolitik dictates that you don't start conflicts with all of your allies for literally no reason

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kodyo

39 minutes ago

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The empire has vassals, not allies.

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FpUser

5 minutes ago

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You nailed it

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markus_zhang

28 minutes ago

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Good point but not popular here.

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haritha-j

54 minutes ago

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Best to drop all international students then, because it seems that America considers all other nations as its enemy.

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kasey_junk

31 minutes ago

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Umm. The best physics work in the world was being done by European academics and admitting them then and earlier was perhaps the best thing that happened both for American science & tech as well as the ability to wage war.

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chestercheeto

39 minutes ago

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The metaphor might make more sense with US in the role that was invading on pretexts to try to recover the self image of a strange looking leader.

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CamperBob2

20 minutes ago

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What? In fact, we did make it difficult for "German grad students in Physics" to immigrate here [1].

Fortunately for us -- very fortunately -- we found a way to accommodate them and keep them on our side.

1: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/22/how-ivy-leagu...